April 2026
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Phew! Teeth have been gnashed, tushkers brandished and fiddle necks splintered this week as the Holyrood campaign in Shetland reached a Rayburn chimney-fire of heat. There has been nothing nasty like it in the isles since those pesky pirates buried a fellow crew member up to the neck on the shores of North Roe and…
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Making plans for Nigel Nigel Farage coming to Shetland (by private aeroplane, no less) for less than three hours was the political equivalent of a stray dog lifting its leg to mark its territory. He was dressed up as a gamekeeper and accompanied by Reform constituency candidate Vic Currie, who looks more AI generated in…
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You can listen to me reading the whole newsletter by clicking on the wee arrow above. Takes about seven minutes. I don’t remember the flat in Walmer Crescent, in that now-very-nearly-genteel Greek Thomson curve off Paisley Road West that was dad and mum’s first home in Glasgow. It would have been crumbling and smoke-blackened in…
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Transports of joy. Saying goodbye to two wheels You can listen to the whole of what follows by clicking on the audio file above. I think I was only allowed to have that Vespa 150 GL at the age of 15 because it didn’t run. It had no logbook, no MOT, a rusty frame, and…
